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Improving Learning Habits

I have observed in my years of learning and teaching that students across ages and universities have very peculiar learning habits. Since I've started teaching, I get endless inquiries from students and their parents on how they can learn more efficiently. Since this is such a pertinent issue, I've decided to list my observations and suggestions in this post. I know this is a long post, and I clarify right now that this post is meant only for those truly interested in learning. Students' learning problems emerge from the fact that t hey take learning as a task to be completed, and not a journey to enjoy. This viewpoint makes a long road very tedious to cover. Typical problems with student learning are: 1) Being penny wise, pound foolish -  Students are certainly miserly in allocating time to studies. They use this approach to the extent that they want to avoid reading as much text as possible , in order to save time and effort. Most often, before even open